Himself of south korea is not in any way suggesting that trump should just accept. Be cautious, first engage at a lower level and trump is like no, i want to do it, lets announce it now. The south koreans end up making the announcement in the driveway in front of the white house. On every level, this is unprecedented, and yet on every level, this is par for the course and what we should expect with President Trump. Normally presumably you would have had the president say, lets think about it. Sure. Lets convene a National Security council meeting. Even president moon jaein, the south korean president all for engagement and negotiation, offered to meet with kim jongun he said if the continues are right, let me think about this. Ill get back to you. President trump normal situation should have done convene a meeting and talk about pros and cons of having such a Summit Meeting with kim jongun, and then coordinate the policy and
then announce it. So stanley, whats wrong with trying this .
facts first. there s a lot to unpack in tonight s speech. dig into this, sort out what is accurate, what is not. tom foreman is here to help us do that with the state of the union. how are you? i m well. president loves to talk about immigration. does it as president and candidate. wasted no time. year after year, countless americans are murdered by criminal, illegal aliens. this is a claim he loves to make. here s the problem. study by libertarian kato institute about immigration in texas, immigrants here legally or illegally less likely than native-born americans. no increase in murder, rape,
are precisely the kind of government intervention that produces inefficiency and corruption, but republicans are now apparently comfortable with government intervention as long as it s for the right people. it is also now a party that has developed a total nalysis. consider trump s tariffs are opposed by a remarkable array of scholars from the conservative heritage foundation to the will libertarian kato to the brookings to the center for economic policy and research. the white house barely offers serious arguments about it instead providing a bogus justification for the tare i haves, national security even though china and russia supply only a tiny portion of these goods to the united states. despite research showing that previous protectionist policies have failed, that the steel industry has lost more jobs due to efficiency in automation than to trade, and that preservegs o preserving one job in the steel
like john bolton. you can have someone who knew a lot about foreign policy. my sense is that that s right. haley is in the mainstream of the republican party, seems to be a smart talented person right. south carolina has an especially nasty politics that she has negotiated in a diplomatic way that gives her a raw skill set at the u.n. even if she doesn t have direct foreign relations experience. as for why she d want the job, nicky haley probably wants to run for president. right, right. if she takes this job, she ll have foreign policy experience. i want to before we leave, there was someone floated for treasury today that you were freaking out about. yes. someone sort of vaguely familiar. his name is john allison. the former ceo of the regional bank bb & t. he ran the libertarian kato think tank. he s an ideologue on banking, get rid of the federal reserve,